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For the Islands I Sing
An Orkney Tapestry
First published in 1969, An Orkney Tapestry, George Mackay Brown's seminal work, is a unique look at Orkney through the eye of a poet. Originally commissioned by his publisher as …
Magnus : Korset och svastikan
George Mackay Brown levde huvuddelen av sitt liv i staden Stromness på Orkney, en ögrupp nordöst om Skottland, i själva verket betydligt närmare Oslo än London. I alla sina …
The Golden Bird
These two long stories are set, like most of George Mackay Brown’s work, in Orkney and in a period, the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when the pattern of island life, …
Six Lives of Fankle the Cat
When the shopkeeper gives Jenny a skinny, black kitten she has no idea who she has adopted. Fankle is no ordinary cat. The fiercely clever feline has lived six lives so far: lives …
I diktet har du fått eit evig liv
Å dikte er ein strid på liv og død, og det diktaren kjempar mot, er sin eigen undergang. Livet er forgjengeleg, og det gjeld å halde fast på det vakre, det opphavlege og reine. …
Rockpools and daffodils
Beside the Ocean of Time
Set in the Orkneys on the fictitious island of Norday, a young poet daydreams the history of the island and its people. He travels back in time to Viking adventures at the court of …